Improvement in registering-boards



REGISTERING-BOARD.

Patented Feb'.8,1876.

N4 PETERS. PMOTO-UTHOGRAPMBL WASHINGTON. n. c.

TINITED STATES 1 PATENT O FICE.

DANIEL 'oNEILL AND PATRICK MURPHY, or New YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN REGISTERING-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,135, dated February 8,1876; application filed November 24, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DANIEL ONEILL and PATRICK MURPHY, of the city of New York, county and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Registering-Board, designed for the arrangement upon its face of a series of sheets of paper preparatory to'printing all at a single operation, of which the .following is a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming part of the same.

Copy-books for teaching and practicing penmanship are usually made by printing upon a lithographic stone a single line or text at the head of the page, leaving the remainder blank for the learners use.

In order to reduce as much as possible the press-work in printing thesebooks the custom is to trace upon the stonea number of these head-lines, separated from each other by only the space required between the line and the top edge of the page, and then lay upon the stone as many sheets asthere are traced lines upon it, the several sheets lapping each other, so that the-head of each may rest upon one of the lines. By this method as manysheets are printed at each impression as there are lines traced on the stone. While this method is an improvement upon printing only a single sheetat one impression, it is still a slow one, for the reason that, as hitherto practiced, the pressman must himself lay the sheets upon the stone one by one, 9registering'-thein by points or marks made on the stone, the press standing still, of course, while the sheets are being laid.

Our invention contemplates the arrangement of these sheets by an assistant upon a separate table or board I while the pressman is operating the press, and having them ready to be quickly and accurately transferred altogether to the stone as soon as the stone is prepared to receive them after each impression, thus economizing and saving all of the time of the press, now usually lost in arranging the sheets upon the stone itself.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our paper-arranging table. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same.

Our apparatus consists of a plane smooth board or table, A, large enough to hold on its surface the number of sheets of paper it is intended to print upon at a single operation. Near one edge of this-board'is placed a straightedge guide, B, extendingthe length of the board, and, preferably, adjusted by set-screws a a. in slotted holes in the guide. Near the said guide, and also upon the opposite side of the board, are series of guide pins or hooks 0, each pin being fixed in a base-block, c, preferably made of metal, with beveled sides, as shown, to fit into dovetail ways or grooves in the face of the board. These grooves are formed by two strips of metal, 0 O, that are let into channels cut in the-face of the board, and are flush with'its surface, and far enough apart to allow the guide-pins to slide along between them. The inner under edges are beveled, as shown, to fit the bevel of the several blocks e of the pins. The parts are so formed and adjusted that, when the slips 0 Q are screwed down to their seats in the board, they will press upon and hold firmly in position all the blocks 0 with their pins or hooks.

The edge of the board opposite to the guide B is beveled, as shown at d, to facilitate the removal of the paper from the board. The making of these guide pins or hooks adjusta ble, as described, is the preferable construction for conveniently adapting the'same table to sheets of different sizes and difl'erentwidths of headings; but, if preferred, they may b fixed in'the table.

To prepare this ,board having the adjustable hooks or pins for operation, the strips 0 printing, and secured in these positions by fastening down the strips 0 0 to their seats.

A sheet of paper is then laid upon the board with its side edge adjusted against the guide B, and its upper edge against the two lower pins or'hooks of theseries. Then a second sheet is laid over the first, with its upper edge against the two next pins, and so on until the pins are all occupied. It is preferable that the sheets of paper shall be wide enough to extend somewhat-beyond the edged of the board. The board may then be laid directly upon the stone or type upon which the printi the margin of the stone outside of the printing is to be done, and adjusted thereon by suitable guides, so that the several sheets of paper, as they lie upon the board, when thus adjusted shall each rest directly over the place on the stone on which the line of letters or characters to be printed upon it are traced or engraved. Then a straight-edge or other suitable object is pressed down upon all the sheets along their edges that extend beyond the beveled edge of the board, holding them thus securely down upon the stone when the board is drawn out, leaving the sheets properly adjusted on the stone for the printing operation.

It is obvious that in the operation above described it is important that the under face of the said table should not be allowed to lie in direct contact with the printing-face of the stone or type. To prevent this, thin narrow strips or cleats of wood or card-board E are secured at each end of the said under face of the said table or board which will rest upon ing-surface, thus bearing the table off from said printing-surface.

The arrangement and placing of a the sheets upon the board may be performed by an assistant, and a young boy or girl will thus an range the sheets as rapidly as a skillful pressman can operate the press.

What we claim is The apparatus here described for arranging several sheets of paper preparatory to printing on' all the sheets at a single operation, consisting of the board A, the guide B, and the guide pins or hooks a, combined and operating as specified.

Witness our hands this 18th day of November, 1875.

DANIEL ONEILL; PATRICK MURPHY.

Witnesses:

B. S. CLARK, FRED. E. BOND. 

